Drishyam, a Hindi remake of Jeethu Joseph's Malayalam film, opens with a declaration that it is based on an original story by Joseph. This is clearly designed to make Ekta Kapoor and anyone who has read Keigo Higashino’s The Devotion of Suspect X choke on their popcorn. Kapoor bought the rights to remake Higashino’s fantastic murder mystery in Hindi. Meanwhile, far away from Kapoor’s Andheri office, Joseph adapted the novel’s plot for a Malayalam film starring Mohanlal, and set it in an Indian village.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lewis M Simons was the Washington Post correspondent in Delhi when the Emergency was imposed. Simons recounts how he got the story and the reaction of Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi when he met them long after the Emergency had been lifted. You did a story in the Washington Post quoting an unnamed source who claimed that Sanjay Gandhi had slapped his mother, Indira Gandhi, six times at a dinner party.

For that, you would always need the reliable ears of your best friend. See the differences in these replies, and we are sure you too would agree with us that your husband should never be your best friend!

NEW DELHI: India scored an important success when it fully protected its traditional knowledge by stalling a leading UK-based laboratory's move to patent a medicinal composition containing turmeric, pine bark and green tea for treating hair loss. The move comes just days after India foiled a similar attempt by US-based consumer goods giant Colgate-Palmolive from patenting a mouthwash formula containing herbal extracts. The vigilance of the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) helped protect the Indian products as the council in its submission to the European Patent Office managed to prove that turmeric, pine bark and green tea were being used as a treatment for hair loss in Indian systems of medicine like Ayurveda and Unani since ancient times.

Yuvraj Singh resembled MJ’s moonwalk to counter Shoaib Mallik’s challenge. The man who is being missed on the field to smash the ball and liven up the stadium is Yuvraj Singh. Well, it all commenced when Sania Mirza was off to Pakistan to relish Eid with her beloved Shoaib Malik and it was then when she posted a dubsmash dance dancing along with the Pakistan team to celebrate its victory against Srilanka. What followed was Yuvi’s sparking comment, “Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik were great athletes but terrible dancers”.

Celebrity astrologer Mita Bhan
unfolds Tarot Readings for the month of August 2015. Let's see what the cards reveal for your sun sign:
Aries
August is the month of making choices. No more sitting on the fence. No more procrastinating. No more avoiding

Are most terrorists in India Muslims? On April 1, Nigeria’s ambassador to India responded to a comment made by Union minister Giriraj Singh, who said: “If Rajiv Gandhi had married a Nigerian lady and not a white-skinned woman, would the Congress have accepted her leadership?” The remark revealed the casual racism that is so commonplace in India. Rediff ran a commentary headlined “5 reasons why Giriraj Singh should shut up”. Presumably he means Muslims.

It's been a few days since Microsoft Windows 10 launched, and so far I'm loving it — and that's coming from someone who's been using a Macbook for the last 10 years. There are lots of perks to buying into the Apple ecosystem. There's Handoff, an Apple feature that lets you shunt websites and draft emails from the phone to the desktop.

Shah Rukh and Salman. In fact, even when the two were apparently at loggerheads, film-maker Farah Khan stayed in touch with both of them. “People ask, ‘Did you have to choose between Salman and SRK?,’ but it never came from either of them. Never have they asked me, ‘Why are you going to the other’s house?’ or ‘Why are you going to his farm for his birthday bash?’ or ‘Why are you doing ‘Munni badnaam hui’ (Dabangg; 2010) when you are working on my film?’ Neither of the two ever put any pressure on me,” says Farah.

By Joe Brock SAINT-DENIS, Reunion (Reuters) - As experts on the Indian Ocean island Reunion studied plane debris for clues in the search for missing flight MH370, scientist Nicolas Villeneuve was making his own discovery: the island's volcano was about to erupt. Reunion, a part of France that lies in the Indian Ocean around 370 miles east of Madagascar, gained newfound notoriety last week when a beach cleaner stumbled across a barnacled piece of an airplane wing known as a flaperon. The wreckage was flown on Friday to mainland France where experts hope forensic analysis will uncover if it was part of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished without trace in March 2014 along with 239 passengers and crew.

WASHINGTON: Flags flew at half-staff in New Jersey on Friday in the honour of an Indian-American emergency medical technician who was killed in the line of duty. At the order of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who is also one of the Republican presidential candidate, flags flew at half-staff in the State on Friday in Patel's honour. "Hinal Patel's compassion for others and commitment to her community through providing care to those in need makes her a hero and a true role model for all New Jerseyans," Christie said. A resident of Piscataway and a graduate of both Piscataway High School and Rutgers University, Patel completed her training in 2012 and served her community by providing emergency medical services on behalf of the Spotswood Emergency Medical Service and the North Stelton Volunteer Fire Company.

Taliban leader Mullah Omar was officially declared dead this week, and the militant group is showing signs of major strain as a result. Omar's death could have huge implications that ripple past the Taliban itself — J.M. Berger, a Brookings Institution fellow and coauthor of the recent book "ISIS: The State of Terror," told Business Insider that this week's news could be a boon to the Islamic State. Although Omar has apparently been dead for more than two years, until this week the Taliban had been leading people to believe that he was still alive.

Bengaluru/Raichur/Tumakuru: It was a sleepless night for Sunitha Vijaykumar, 38, wife of Vijay Kumar, who was one of the four Indians detained by the Islamic State militants on July 29. The housewife, a mother of two, is now relieved after the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) confirmed to her that her husband was released on Friday evening. Sunitha and her two sons, Suhas V. (19) and Siddarth (14), who stay in at their new residence in Kormangala 6th Block, were shocked when a senior staff from the university called in from Sirte, Libya around 10 pm on Thursday to tell them that Vijay Kumar had been detained at the Islamic State controlled area near Tripoli. Vijay Kumar and three other faculty at the varsity were on their way to the airport to head to India on Wednesday night when they were detained around 11 p.m., said Mr Hemant Kumar, Vijay Kumar’s brother.

Zhou Qunfei is the world's richest self-made woman. Zhou, the founder of Lens Technology, owns a $27 million estate in Hong Kong. Zhou knows the drill. For years, she labored in a factory, the best job she could get having grown up in an impoverished village in central China.

Srinagar : Former militant-turned Congress MLA Usman Majeed on Friday stoked a controversy by claiming he had met Tiger Memon after the 1993 Mumbai blasts in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir during which he seemed “worried” about his brother Yakub’s surrender fearing the ISI might kill him. “I met Tiger in 1993.

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Dear Leo, a great day may lie ahead of you making you feel optimistic as the Moon is placed in Aquarius today. This transit may awaken your higher self and may help you purge your mind of all negative...